Dan Eden, Deputy Director
Staff:
Address/Phone/Fax
Air Permits
Permitting and Registration Support
Radioactive Materials
Waste Permits
Water Quality
Water Supply
The Office of Permitting and Registration is responsible for
implementing the federal and state laws and regulations governing
all aspects of permitting for the air, water, and waste programs.
The office also oversees the investigation and cleanup of hazardous
pollutants released into the environment, registers and manages the
reporting requirements for certain facilities, and implements the
petroleum storage tank reimbursement program. Office staffers in
the agency’s bankruptcy program pursue debtors in United
States bankruptcy courts for recovery of claims owed to the
TCEQ.
Air
Permits
Richard A. Hyde, P.E., Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Air
Permits Division processes air permits and authorizations for
facilities that, when operational, would emit contaminants into the
atmosphere. The division does this through two major air permitting
programs, New
Source Review (NSR) Permits and Title V Federal Operating
Permits.
New Source Review Permits
There are several potential air authorizations under the category
of NSR Permits:
- De Minimis
- Permits by Rule (PBR)
- Standard Permit (SP)
- Construction, Modification
- Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
- Nonattainment
Title V Federal Operating Permits
There are two kinds of possible permits under the category of
Title V Federal Operating Permits:
- Site Operating Permit
- General Operating Permit
Permitting and
Registration Support
Dorca Zaragoza-Stone, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Permitting and Registration Support Division promotes and
supports various agency programs. Division responsibilities include
the following:
Radioactive
Materials
Susan Jablonski, P.E., Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Radioactive Materials Division performs activities
associated with the licensing of facilities involved in the
storing, processing, or disposing of one or more of the following:
uranium ore,
by-product radioactive waste,
low-level radioactive waste, non-oil and gas naturally
occurring radioactive waste (not oil and gas NORM waste), and
radioactive waste generated from federal government activities.
The Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 401, authorizes the
TCEQ to regulate the
disposal of most radioactive substances in Texas. Also, the
State of Texas is an "Agreement State" authorized by the United
States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to administer a
radiation control program under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended.
Waste
Permits
Jacqueline S. Hardee, P.E., Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Waste Permits Division performs activities associated with
the permitting and registering of facilities involved in the
storing, processing, or disposing of one or more of the following:
hazardous
waste, nonhazardous
industrial waste, municipal
solid waste,
special waste, and activities associated with the permitting,
registration and authorization of Class I, III, and V wells in the
underground
injection control program. The division also:
- performs
technical analysis of notifications for waste management,
including recycling of industrial and municipal solid waste;
- performs technical analysis related to waste received from
international sources;
- performs technical analysis of submissions from regulated
entities and
- makes groundwater protection recommendations to the Railroad
Commission of Texas and applicants for oil and gas wells, Class II
injection wells, cathodic protection wells, and seismic
programs.
Water
Quality
L’Oreal Stepney, P.E., Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Water Quality Division is responsible for protecting the
quality of water in Texas. This division:
Water
Supply
Todd Chenoweth, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax
The Water Supply Division is responsible for programs that
ensure the efficient administration of surface water use; the
production, treatment, delivery and protection of safe and adequate
drinking water; and the provision of dependable, viable utility
service at fair levels of compensation. The division performs the
following functions:
- Oversees public drinking
water production, treatment, quality and delivery by
implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
-
Assesses and
protects sources of public drinking water.
- Offers technical assistance on the design and operation of
public water systems.
- Guides public water systems on homeland-security preparation,
response, and recovery.
- Reviews applications for rate changes, certificates of
convenience and necessity, utility sales, district creation, and
district bond issues.
-
Reviews engineering plans for new or significantly modified
public water systems or exceptions to TCEQ rules.
- Assesses the financial, managerial, and technical capabilities
of public water systems.
- Reviews applications for surface water use, changes in water
rights ownership, and use of riverbeds and riverbanks.
- Supports interstate
water compacts.
- Maintains
water-availability models for all river basins.
- Evaluates
water conservation plans and
drought contingency plans.
- Administers the
Water-Saving Plumbing Fixtures Program.
- Manages the
Water Utility Database and the Water Availability Modeling
Database.
- Performs groundwater quality planning and assessments.
- Supports the interagency Texas Groundwater Protection
Committee
and the Texas Groundwater Protection
Strategy.
- Manages the state's plan for preventing groundwater pollution
from pesticides and the state's program for the identification of
priority groundwater-management areas.
